Everybody can write; writers can't do anything else.

People are like birds: on the wing, all beautiful; up close, all beady little eyes.

When we discuss those we love with those who do not love them, the end of love is near.

We are never more self-righteous than when giving up what we should have shunned all along.

Neurotic: someone who can go from the bottom to the top, and back again, without ever once touching the middle.

What a shame that allowances have to stop with the teens: both those that are paid to us and those that are made for us.

When women feel they have learned to forgive their mothers - and men, their fathers - all it usually means is that they've decided to allow themselves the same kind of behavior.